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So I'm alone in loving this show, huh? I guess no one here has EVER attempted any kind of self-improvement program or regimen, whether a book or a yoga class or seminar or a spiritual practice. If you had, you'd know the hilarious futility of trying to hold onto what you've "learned" in the face of a chaotic and

This woman is a goddess. She's an incredible dramatic actress ("We Don't Live Here Anymore," "Blue Velvet," etc.) but somehow an even better comic actress. Her performance in "Citizen Ruth" is one of the most fearless and funny I have ever seen—as Ruth Stoops she's basically a funnier AND realer version of Geri

This was just bad, and Rowan's generosity (a generous term for it!) bugs. I love the premise. Using the idea of time travel to explore the notion of starting over could be a pretty decent sustaining metaphor. I can forgive the bad special effects…they're good enough for television. But the characters and storytelling

I'm about halfway through and it's amusing enough in short bursts, but this is just a very accurate, exceedingly fair review of the book. He has played with deliberately stilted erotic dialogue in The Fermata, but in that book it was at least grounded by genuine eroticism in the prose. This book is untethered in every

I love my job, and I love the show. What you "smelled" was just the initial sadness of reading it smacked down on my favorite TV site.

I've seen a bunch of the subsequent episodes and the show keeps getting better and more addictive as it goes. And as a Buffy/SMG fan I can also say that as it develops the series DOES satisfy more and more as that "next chapter" for her as an actress.